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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing … for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that … neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading inferences about the key determinants of savings behavior. The …

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Is there consumption risk sharing in the EEC?

Ubide, Angel - 1994

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Unobserved components in economic time series

Maravall Herrero, Agustín - 1993

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International business cycles : how much can standard theory account for?

Ravn, Morten O. - 1993

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A mixture multiplicative error model for realized volatility

Lanne, Markku (contributor) - 2006

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Contiguous duration dependence and nonstationarity in job search : some reduced-form estimates

Belzil, Christian - 1996

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Why does the stock market fluctuate?

Barsky, Robert B.; DeLong, James Bradford - 1992

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2003

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...

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